The constellation
J1522 Rebuke to the stingy
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- The cheater cheated · J1510 entry
beneath it
- Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave · J1522.1 entry
- Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms · J1522.2 entry
filed beside
- A rule must work both ways · J1511 entry
- Impossible demand rebuked · J1512 entry
- Healed with his own medicine · J1513 entry
- You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded · J1515 entry
- Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other · J1516 entry
- Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) · J1517 entry
- Swindler's plans foiled · J1521 entry
- Poor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on him · J1525 entry
- Soldier's practical retort to officer · J1526 entry
- Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses · J1527 entry